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have entered may last for years. Medical schools 

 to supply trained men for the future as weU as the 

 present emergency must be kept in active operation 

 under any circumstances. While aiding to the 

 uttermost in overcoming the present shortage of 

 men, the necessity of keeping the source of supply 

 open emphasizes the importance of conserving our 

 raw material. Therefore, men now in college look- 

 ing forward to medicine as a career should be made 

 to understand that it is their patriotic duty to the 

 nation at this time to continue their studies and 

 enroll in the medical school of their choice. Fur- 

 thermore, no medical student who has not com- 

 pleted three years of medical work should be per- 

 mitted to give up his course, as the country needs 

 his trained and not his untrained service. 



There are, however, ways in which the medical 

 schools can help the present situation. The follow- 

 ing suggestions are made for your consideration 

 and action: 



1. Medical schools should be prepared to gradu- 

 ate senior medical students promptly in case of 

 need. The faculties should urge all graduates who' 

 can be relieved of their obligations as internes in 

 civil hospitals to enroll in the medical corps of the 

 Army and Navy. 



2. Medical schools should be encouraged to con- 

 sider as a form of service, the Italian plan by 

 which base hospital units can be organized through 

 the Red Cross. These military hospitals carry with 

 them the clinical faculty and students as medical 

 personnel. This type of organization meets two 

 ends — practical help can be rendered to the Army 

 or the Navy in time of war and instruction may be 

 continued at the base. This permits the gradua- 

 tion of men directly into the junior grades of the 

 Army after the most practical form of military in- 

 struction. 



3. Fourth-year students may be allowed to sub- 

 stitute, in special eases, service in a base hospital 

 for the fourth year in the hospital at home when 

 opportunities are offered for instruction in such 

 military institutions. 



4. Medical schools that do not adopt the Italian 

 plan should be prepared to reduce the faculties to 

 the minimum required for routine work and enroll 

 all men so liberated in the Medical Officers Eeserve 

 Corps. 



To put these recommendations into immediate ef- 

 fect, the committee suggested that the CouncU of 

 National Defense send a telegram to the deans of 

 all medical schools, urging that all medical students 

 until the fourth year is reached should be dis- 

 couraged from enlisting at present in any line or 



sanitary organization; and another telegram to the 

 presidents of all colleges and universities saying 

 that national safety demands that all undergradu- 

 ates planning to study medicine should enroll in 

 the medical school of their choice at the earliest 

 l^ossible moment. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The following have been elected to member- 

 ship in the American Philosophical Society: 

 Residents of the United States: William 

 Frederick Durand, Ph.D., Stanford Univer- 

 sity, Calif.; Pierre Samuel duPont, Menden- 

 hall, Pa.; Carl H. Eigenmann, Ph.D., Bloom- 

 ington, Ind. ; Charles Holmes Herty, Ph.D., 

 Nev? York; Herbert E. Ives, Ph.D., Philadel- 

 phia; Waldemar Lindgren, Ph.D., Sc.D., 

 Cambridge, Mass.; Walton Brooks McDaniel, 

 Ph.D., Philadelphia; Winthrop J. V. Oster- 

 hout, Ph.D., Cambridge, Mass.; Harold 

 Pender, Ph.D., Philadelphia; Frederick Han- 

 ley Scares, B.S., Pasadena, Calif.; George 

 Owen Squier, Ph.D., Washington, D. C; 

 Charles P. Steinmetz, Ph.D., Schenectady, 

 K Y.; Oscar S. Straus, LL.D., New York 

 City; Alonzo Englebert Taylor, M.D., Phila- 

 delphia; Edwin Bidwell Wilson, Ph.D., Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. Foreign Residents: Archibald 

 Byron Macallum, F.E.S., Toronto; Sir David 

 Prain, F.E.S., Kew. 



Sm Ernest Shackleton has been elected to 

 the honorary fellowship of the American Mu- 

 seum of liTatural History, the highest scientific 

 honor which the institution has to bestow. 

 This is in recognition of his Antarctic explora- 

 tions and his heroic efforts in rescuing the 

 members of his party. Sir Ernest becomes the 

 ninth honorary fellow of the American Mu- 

 seum, the others being: Eoald Amundsen, Dr. 

 Bashford Dean, Lieutenant George T. Em- 

 mons, U. S. ]Sr., Geo. Bird Grinnell, Baron 

 Ludovie Moncheur, Rear Admiral Robert E. 

 Peary, U. S. IST., Dr. Leonard C. Sanford and 

 Vilhjamur Stefansson. 



The faculty of Wellesley College has 

 awarded the Alice Freeman Palmer Fellowship 

 for the year 1917-18 to Miss Hilda Hempl, 

 A.B. (Stanford, '14), M.S. (Michigan, '15). 

 Miss Hempl has been studying at the Serum 



